Screen Addiction Podcast

At the recent landmark Los Angeles social media addiction trial, the court ruled that addictive “features” in Instagram—like infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendations—addicted a young woman during her childhood and contributed to her serious mental health problems. While individual design features do pose risks to kids, there is a much darker truth essentially unknown to parents and even hea...

Newly released court documents from a class action lawsuit on social media addiction expose Common Sense Media and its affiliates to be marketers of social media to kids—not protectors of their health. This means that our nation’s most prominent organization providing health guidance about kids’ screens is misleading parents and putting a generation of young people at risk.  I follow the money to...

Welcome to the Screen Addiction Podcast where I reveal the secret Silicon Valley science addicting our kids to screens. I am Dr. Richard Freed, a child and adolescent psychologist trained at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, an author featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and the proud father of two daughters.  Upcoming episodes expose that the social media and video gam...